Money Does Grow on Trees You Just Have to Believe by Shane Russell - HTML preview

The most important message to take from this scene is that no matter how crazy or far-fetched your dreams may be; don‘t ever let anyone stand in the way of your dreams and aspirations, not even your own family.

Your friends and family will be your biggest critics and will try their hardest to discourage you from pursuing your dreams because, as I mentioned before, they don‘t want to see you become hurt or disappointed. Also, many of the worst criticisms come from those who have never experienced success in their lives.

I have found it much easier to keep my day-to-day pursuits to myself. I don‘t share my pursuits with my friends or family anymore because they will only believe in me once I have tangible success to show them. Due to experience, I have realized they do more harm to me by criticizing and not supporting me so I don‘t even bother anymore.

I have experimented with many different avenues to become successful because I have been looking for the one which Check out our free business development and marketing resources and loads of great information. www.suitedmarketing.com or email us at info@suitedmarketing.com.

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will be the very best for me. My friends and family don‘t see it that way. From the outside looking in all they see is that I haven‘t succeeded at the ventures I have experimented with; this is the farthest from the truth. Every avenue I have taken to become successful I have learned something from whether it has been how-to or how-not to do something.

Thomas Edison experimented with different elements and failed 9,999 times before inventing the light bulb on his 10,000th try. He was criticized for failing so many times, but he didn‘t see it that way. He learned from each experience and he saw it as 9,999 ways how ―not to‖ make a light bulb work.

Don‘t ever give up and keep pressing forward. Don‘t listen to the friend and family critics in your life. Because of their failures, they will try to bring you down. The success will come; you just have to be patient!

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CHOOSE FRIENDS CAREFULLY

Just as your friends and family will criticize you for pursuing your dreams, they too will try to divert your attention away from your short-term and long-term goals.

I really enjoy the company of people. I get really excited when I have the opportunity to meet someone new because each individual has a unique story and life experience to share.

I also have loads of friends from all different walks of life.

I have friends who have a lot of money and friends who don‘t have any money. I have friends who are educated and I have friends who are uneducated. I don‘t prejudge someone because of his education or socioeconomic status. There are great people and not-so-great people in all areas of life.

In the past, I have had friends who aren‘t working towards accomplishing anything special in their lives. They accept mediocrity as the norm and will work forty hours a week at a nine-to-five job for a company in which they believe there to be

―stability.‖ After forty years they will retire and ―expect‖ to receive Social Security because they didn‘t spend the time and/or money in the early years to plan for their retirement.

Every night after work they go home, sit on the couch, and watch television until they‘re ready to go to bed. They repeat the same behavior five days a week, fifty weeks out of the year (two weeks given for vacation), except on the weekends when they go out of town or stay home and party with their friends. They get excited when they receive their annual $1.00 per hour raise from their job, which only equates to about $2,000 more per year.

I won‘t go into depth with this right now, but depending on their income, the annual rate of inflation (4%) in the United States may or may not cancel out their raise. They may own a mortgage Check out our free business development and marketing resources and loads of great information. www.suitedmarketing.com or email us at info@suitedmarketing.com.

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on a house, a nice car, a nice boat, but they may also be up to their necks in debt. You will never know this because they won‘t tell you, but they don‘t have to. All you have to do is look at the statistics and you will quickly realize that they most likely are in such a situation.

I know you know who the previously mentioned people are. In fact, you might be one of them, except for the fact that you‘re reading this e-book and are trying to do something different with your life in order to change your current situation for the better.

I try to stay as far from the ―nine-to-fivers‖ as possible on a personal level (except family, of course, since I don‘t have a choice), unless they‘re like you and trying to change their current situation. I think they‘re nice people, but they‘re going to be an anchor on my life and I don‘t want that.

I have found that the ―nine-to-fivers‖ are programmed like robots and don‘t know how to think for themselves. They also don‘t like to take very many risks. They prefer to live life on the

―safe side.‖ They are the people who are afraid to fail. They are the people who will talk bad about the behaviors you do because they don‘t understand what you‘re trying to do. They will tell you time-and-time again that you‘re going to fail at what you do. They don‘t think outside the box when it comes to making money. They believe the only way to make money is to trade their hours for dollars. What the ―nine-to-fivers‖ don‘t realize is that the most successful and wealthy people in the world usually own their own business.

Muhammad Ali once said

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -

a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-Check out our free business development and marketing resources and loads of great information. www.suitedmarketing.com or email us at info@suitedmarketing.com.

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minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

If you want to be a champion, make sure you pick your friends wisely because you will not be able to sit on the couch every night after work and party on the weekends; you will have to be building your business or educating yourself on a regular basis.

Success won‘t come easy and will take a lot of sacrifice, but if you really want more out of life, then there will be no question as to what‘s more important.

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SACRIFICE IS A ―MUST!‖

It‘s Up To Me

I get discouraged now and then

When there are clouds of gray,

Until I think about the things

That happened yesterday.

I do not mean the day before

Or those of months ago,

But all the yesterdays in which

I had the chance to grow.

I think of opportunities

That I allowed to die,

And those I took advantage of

Before they passed me by.

And I remember that the past

Presented quite a plight,

But somehow I endured it and

The future seemed all right.

And I remind myself that I

Am capable and free,

And my success and happiness

Are really up to me.

James J. Metcalfe

I would not be where I am today if I had not made many sacrifices but in my eyes ―no obstacle can withstand focused, concentrated efforts to achieve success.‖ (unknown). To this day people tell me I‘m very focused, but I have been side-tracked many times. It‘s only been because of my sheer will and passion to succeed, that I have remained motivated, focused, and on track to sacrifice my time in order to accomplish my goals.

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There were many times over the years when I had to do stuff I didn‘t want to for the greater-good and my long-term goals.

My future and my success has always rested in my hands and has always been up to me—no one else. I always knew I was going to do something with my life and I always knew it wasn‘t going to be easy. Every day I have the opportunity to grow, but without sacrifice, the growing stops.

As I previously mentioned, I went to college full time for six years without ever taking a break. I worked an average of thirty hours per week and had a girlfriend my entire college career.

My parents didn‘t have money to send me to college so I knew I would have to work extra hard to send myself to college.

Although it was a long and grueling journey, I managed to graduate Cum Laude, which to me was more like, ―Thank you Laude.‖

I can remember countless times when my friends were out having a good time without me because I had to go to school, do homework, or go to work. During the winter months, for example, my friends went snowboarding almost every day of the week while I was in school. The only time I was able to go was during my six-week winte